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Pleiades (M45) - 300mm, Matt Stahl
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Pleiades (M45) - 300mm

Pleiades (M45) - 300mm, Matt Stahl
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Pleiades (M45) - 300mm

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This is 2x drizzle, originally 4x6 and cropped to 5x7. 1600 ISO has more noise than I like, so I did my best to find an NR balance in post that didn't remove too much detail. I had to reject 1/3 of my subs due to clouds, and I should've taken more darks/flats/bias frames.

This version (as opposed to https://astrob.in/336924/C/) is my 1st time using DBE. It got rid of the brownish background that plagued the other.

Looks like my lens exhibits coma off-center (center-of-field is actually bottom right in this crop). I also realized afterwards that I had left a UV filter in place, which might also have been a contributing factor.

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Pleiades (M45) - 300mm, Matt Stahl

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